Archive for the ‘unexplained’ category
September 4, 2008
— Hehe, Mongolian Death Worms are cryptids reported to exist in the Gobi desert of Mongolia. They are supposedly two to five feet long (not as big as a sand worm from Dune), reddish in color, and kinda look like intestines. More intriguingly, they are said to be able to spit sulfuric acid, and can kill at distances by electrocution! — Gotta get me some of these puppies for my backyard!
The most recent expedition in search of these creepy-crawlies was conducted by the reality TV series Destination Truth in 2006-07. This show would appear to be the SciFi channel’s answer to the History Channel’s MonsterQuest. In searching the Gobi Desert at night for the Death Worms, they found a tunnel of some sort on the sand. As this might be the lair of a creature that can spit sulfuric acid and electrocute prey, the intrepid investigators did what any of us would do…they plunged their arms into the presumed worm hole! Soil from these holes tested normal rather than acidic…
Categories: animals, furry, science, unexplained
Tags: Mongolian Death Worms
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September 2, 2008
— Hope you weren’t eating; I’ve got some “thing” to show you! This “thing” was washed up off a remote island by Alaska in early August 2008. The island was very remote and the sea too rough for the “thing” to be inspected up close, and so it was photographed from a boat. The question arises, what is this thing? Possible answers include an aborted Beluga whale fetus, a decomposed elephant seal, or a ray. We may never know now what this “thing” is (or was), since it is likely to have been carried away since its discovery. Post-mortem identification of species remains can be challenging due to rapid decomposition and predation, if you’re lucky enough to get ahold of anything at all…
Categories: animals, furry, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: The Alaskan Thing
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September 1, 2008
–No, we’re not talking about Big Bird, that mellow yellow fellow with the endocrine problem universally endeared to children on Sesame Street. This is about cryptic birds big enough to carry away small children, as reportedly happened in Lawndale, Illinois in 1977. At that time, a 4′ tall boy weighing 56 lbs. was reportedly carried 35 feet by an enormous black bird with a white ring around its neck. The bird was said to have had a 4-1/2 foot body, and each wing of the bird exclusive of the body measured 4 feet. The boy pounded at the bird and was eventually dropped after having been carried that 35′ distance; he was physically unharmed, but suffered psychological problems afterwards. The bird came to be referred to as the Lawndale Thinderbird, after the enormous birds of Native American legend…
Categories: animals, anomalies, furry, unexplained
Tags: enormous birds, Lawndale Thunderbird, Thunderbird
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August 26, 2008
–Hoaxes regarding hidden or cryptic animals did not start with Bigfoot. Master showman P.T. Barnum in the 19th century as well as Robert Ripley in the 20th were well known for exhibiting sewn-together specimens such as the Fiji Mermaid (depicted), the mummified upper body of a monkey sewn onto the bottom half of a fish! To some of the more naive and gullible people of earlier generations, such creations of a taxidermist were proof enough of a fantastic or mythological creature.
This isn’t exactly the kind of mermaid likely to arouse anyone’s romantic fantasy, however, unless you’re into very dead things and have a stronger stomach than I do…
Categories: animals, furry, science, unexplained
Tags: cryptic hoaxes, Fiji mermaid, mermaid
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August 20, 2008
–Sigh…just days after a much ballyhooed news conference was held in California to proclaim that the remains of a creature found in the North Georgia mountains was the legendary man-ape, the “carcass” when thawed out was discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit! The two individuals aiming to prove the existence of Bigfoot paid an undisclosed sum of money for the ice-enclosed rubber suit.
While this fraud fell apart faster than I thought it would, we who believe know only one thing: The truth is out there! Perhaps we someday will have a real cryptid discovery to celebrate…it’s happened before!
Categories: animals, anomalies, furry, science, unexplained
Tags: Bigfoot fraud
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August 16, 2008
–Well, the Montauk Monster’s missing, but we’ve got the Chupacabra video, and supposedly a dead Bigfoot.–Not bad times for cryptozoology or hucksterism, depending on what you believe!
Reporters were not impressed by the Bigfoot presentation of the two men claiming that it was the genuine article, as they did not produce a body nor disclose its location. One of the two was also involved in a previous Bigfoot hoax in 2005, when he was going to do a “Pay-Per-View” thing. They did produce a picture, which looked like a Chewbacca costume with a few guts sprinkled on for good measure. Of three DNA samples produced, one was human, the second possum, and the third untestable. Without rigorous and independent scientific investigation, conclusions will be tainted at best.
This will take months to spin out, but I would look for the claims to start to unravel. I’d be thrilled, however, if this was the real deal…but DNA samples may prove that this was the offspring of John Edwards...
Categories: animals, anomalies, furry, science, unexplained
Tags: Bigfoot, Georgia ape
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August 14, 2008
–This could be major, or just another hoax. Two Georgia residents who lead bigfoot-tracking expeditions are claiming to have found the body of a bigfoot in the woods of northern Georgia. The men, one a police officer and the other a former correctional officer, claim they have a body, photos, and DNA evidence of the 7-feet tall, 500 lb. mammal. On August 15th, the men will reveal their findings at a news conference in Palo Alto, where they intend to present DNA evidence that will prove that the carcass is that of a bigfoot. The creature has a 16-3/4 inch footprint and a palm to fingertip span of 11-1/2 inches. The presenters are not stating where the body was found or where it is now.
Will this be the find of a lifetime, or just another disappointment?–I want to believe!
Categories: animals, anomalies, cryptozoology, furry, science, unexplained
Tags: Bigfoot, Bigfoot found?
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August 12, 2008
–Another Chupacabra video has recently surfaced, this one supposedly made by a sheriff’s deputy. Most of the alleged Chupacabra videos and pictures viewable so far on the internet are either so out of focus as to be anything, or they are laughable fakes. Something may yet come of the roadkill specimen preserved in a freezer in Cuero, Texas. I saw a brief snippet of the video on the news in which I only saw the life form from the rear as it retreated; definitely a canid. Some say that the creature is a gray fox with a bad case of mange, or a strange coyote…
…if the “strange coyote” is equipped with an assortment of Acme products, we’ll probably be seeing more of him… 😉
Categories: animals, anomalies, furry, science, unexplained
Tags: chupacabra
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August 5, 2008
–No, the Hairy Man is not a guy in desperate need of a back waxing, but rather a Native American Bigfoot analogue dating back in their art and descriptions for a thousand years. Sightings and reported destruction have occurred in Canada.
Native American sentiments are positive towards the Hairy Man, who is seen as being a benign protector dangerous only if crossed or opposed. Very cool are associated myths that humans and animals once shared communicative capabilities, circumstances which ended when man began to think of himself as better than the animals…
Categories: animals, anomalies, furry, science, unexplained
Tags: Bigfoot, the hairy man
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August 3, 2008
–This washed up on a beach off New York’s Long Island, smelling of rotten flesh. Dubbed The Montauk Monster, it looks like a bloated hairless dog or big rodent but with an eagle-like beak; the specimen wasn’t really large in size, kind of a mini-monster. It has been compared to a large turtle without its shell, though some think it’s a decomposed raccoon. Comparisons have also been made to hell-demons and aliens, with some opting to believe that it’s a previously unknown marine mammal or something produced by a nearby genetics lab. Still other think that this was just a clever Photoshop creation.
The remains have been spirited away, some say by an old man who planned to mount and display it in his den. Others claim two young dudes have it in a large zippered case such as a bedspread would come in, pending further examination.
I hope we see this again, but doubt that we shall…
Categories: animals, furry, science, unexplained
Tags: monster, sea monster
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— Hehe, Mongolian Death Worms are cryptids reported to exist in the Gobi desert of Mongolia. They are supposedly two to five feet long (not as big as a sand worm from Dune), reddish in color, and kinda look like intestines. More intriguingly, they are said to be able to spit sulfuric acid, and can kill at distances by electrocution! — Gotta get me some of these puppies for my backyard!
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